Stagecoach Run Art Festival

The Stagecoach Run Art Festival is a free, self-guided open studio and gallery tour of some of the area’s best artists, performers and makers. As they’ve done every summer since 1996 (except for pandemic years), artists in and around Treadwell and Franklin will once again open their studios, homes, barns and galleries to host friends and visitors from across New York State and beyond.

The Festival’s original mission was to use an “open-studio” model to strengthen (and sometimes forge new) relationships between creatives and their neighbors in a more genuine way while simultaneously demonstrating the undeniable financial and cultural value that artists can add to a community. Given the changes this region has undergone over the last few years, this mission seems even more relevant and important.

“Stagecoach” is a self-guided tour and entirely free to the public. Many of its visitors begin their journey at the Bright Hill Literary Center in Treadwell where a salon-style exhibition of participating artists’ works can be found.

Event maps will be in broad distribution in the month preceding the event but also available at any of the participating venues (recognizable for their large yellow signs) during the weekend of the event.